Strength: Intellection (tangentized definition)

riding tangents to knowledge, mapping connections for clarity, seeking interior instigators to understand external responses, reveling in interdisciplinary dance, teasing out inherent reflections of glory

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Informants

• Teach with Your Strengths 
• definition of "intellection" by Clifton StrengthsFinder
  
• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.

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Worship: When I am alone and when we are together...

• declaring Christ’s glory to Christ (Cognitive Worship)
• adoring Christ for who he is (Affective Worship)
• embodying Christ’s glory in mind, will, and emotion (Behavioral Worship)

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Strength: Learner (tangentized definition)

hungering for knowledge’s influences, connecting new with known, desiring innovative expansion of common truth; driven to dance on monkey bars, playing freely on steadfast fundamentals

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Informants

• Teach with Your Strengths 
• definition of "learner" by Clifton StrengthsFinder
• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.

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Sculpture by leaf...really

Ann found this on the brick patio: proof that even dead leaves have a bit of heat.

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Bug found in porch screen--EEK!

I have no idea what this is, but it is creepy (especially given my innate fear of all things bug). Actual size was about half an inch.

Anyone know what this is? I'm curious.

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Definition: Train

careful instruction, heuristically applied in accordance with wisdom and context, aimed at creative application, fitting a principled design, and achieving nimble implementation fulfilling approved criteria

Informants

• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.
• definition of "train" in synonym discussion under "teach" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.

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If everything is his, then what?

Pondering, seeking his glory, making sense together, gathering for well-tuned reflection: We are a people seeking truth, loving its author, seeing all under his rule.

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Informants

• Qualitative Research: Naming details, discerning conceptual structure, discerning meaning, and postulating the significance
• Church: here together for a reason

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Today's sunrise, complete with a bird brigade

Morning

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Lord of earth and cyber space

Technology is tool and place; the teaching arts remain required. Virtual knowledge is shaped by context, but He rules here too: his people, his world.

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Informants

• The Commons: technology as tool, disciplines, and Christ’s glory central
• Online learning: technology as place and proper pedagogy

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The story is the meaning of the stones

Pulled from the river and piled, twelve stones stand, raising a question in curious souls:

“What does it mean?”

The answer begins, “Remember when God...”

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Informant

• Joshua 4

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Directed stubbornness prevails

Eyes fixed, for his power determines. So, focused on hope, unwavered by happiness or pain, we move past human power, undimmed by weakness or capacity.

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Informants

• When Serving God Almighty
  
• random word: stare
• random word: adamantly

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From introspection to “Theo-spection”

Lessons from the journey 11/14-11/20

• StrengthsFinder is an amazingly insightful tool.
• Creating visual metaphors can clarify one’s thinking.
• Each one of us is simultaneously indispensable and dispensable.
• Worship is everything.

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Nature’s book can be a tough read

Go to the ant...

The emergent structure is held simply, subject to the reasonable person. Clarity, moderated by confusion mixed with known. The system’s fluctuating complexity requires iterative reflection.

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Informant

• The Origin of Species by Darwin, ch 2-3

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Group thought without group think?

Similarity, enriched by difference, explains, gives clues, truth sought in cultures, variation uncovered slice-by-slice, following leads. Assumptions, triangulated yet again, transformed as spiraled thoughts build.

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Informants

• Be church (Eph 4:11-16)
• Focus groups: measuring interaction, feelings and thoughts gathered
• Focus groups: single category, multiple category, double layer, broad involvement

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Becoming whole on three axes

Souls are known through engagement. Through participation we become ourselves, depths known over miles, traveled heart-in-heart.

Meaning is known by reflective thought, tapping intuitive reasoning.

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Informants

• Spiritual formation: space for formation, process clarity, abiding as key, breathing metaphor
• Interpersonal communication: names known, process, intentional

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Enigmatic grace leaks

Testimony is autonomic: knowing Jesus leaks in words, deeds. So be a holy annoyance by stealth, braced by Spirit-enabled passion. In-spired by faith-cognition, exhale truth.

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Informants

• Experiencing Jesus at work through you
• random word: hone
• random word: dreamily

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Participation shapes possibility

Life and academy intertwine, with all creation its native land, journeyed, not cloistered. Emphasis is determined by life’s dailies: one whole, by choice or default.

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Informants

• The Origin of Species, by Darwin, ch 1
• ponderings re: reflective theology, lived theology, and holistic integration

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Metaphysics and a bit of physiology?

Lessons from the journey 11/7-11/13

• Theology has to do with everything.
• Philosophy is really about wisdom.
• Social science is secular ecclesiology.
• Christ’s glory is paramount.
• Potatoes were an unwise choice.

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Definition: Educate

a loftier application of teaching basics, enculturating some toward objectives of culture and need; maintaining tradition in persons of creative capacity to nurture continued innovation

Informants

• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.
• definition of "educate" in synonym discussion under "teach" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.

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Interviewing the soul’s concern

receptive dialogue
patiently structuring freedom
releasing voice

gathering
pondering deep beliefs
opening hearts
intuiting patterns
emergence

participation honors truth

guide
fitting well-formed interrogatives
full circle

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Informants

• purpose-driven dialogue
• explicate worldview
• convergence-->divergence
• question arc

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And the glorious variety remains

we always show ourselves
word and act
revealing heart’s assumptions
and truth’s reception

restoring our inherent creativity
gnosis and poiesis
transform
disequilibrium traces down
resistence

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Informants

• theology of culture
• fostering positive creativity

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Results from my Clifton Strenthsfinder Instrument

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It’s about him, remember?

assumed favoritism pierced through
our perspective
becoming his

keep delving
to understand
comprehending him
souls kneel

simple trust pierces pride
all our goodness
shown insufficient

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Informants

• Availability of God’s Salvation 
• random word: bore
• random word: depreciatorily

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For all our powers, mystery remains

change takes time

furtive detail
watched over years
connections remain obscured

truth finally revealed
or distorted

partial knowledge
inability

bits finally coalesce
awe shapes understanding

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Informants

• Darwin’s Origin of Species, Introduction and and chapter 1 (Variation Under Domestication): Librivox recording
• scan of Interdisciplinary: Essays from the Literature by William H. Newell

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It was a lamby, goaty week...yum

 Lamb foreshank, slow-cooked in wheat beer
with red onion and rosemary.

Oven-steamed spaghetti squash,
served with a rather large pat of goat butter.

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Definition: Instruct

planned and careful deduction, guiding from old to new; spiraling to draw new from old; faithful to themes, launching innovation from structure, risking in safety.
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Informants

• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.
• definition of "instruct" in synonym discussion under "teach" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.

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